"Key features in the human body plan evolved specifically for improved running performance." The new study is the first time researchers have directly estimated running ability in Lucy's species ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

The first sign that there might be a different ... another fossil that is still a landmark in the story of human origins. "Lucy" -- named for the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ...

Lucy and other members of her species could walk well because their hip and knee joints were more like humans' than like chimps'. The very first fossils of this species -- found by ...

The bone fragments will be shown at National Museum as part of a 'Human Origins and Fossils' exhibition for two months from ...

Research later found that Lucy would have had a mixture of ape-like and human-body features ... now as they would have been when they were first made. Plummer told CBS: "I think the Oldowan ...

Chimpanzee Lucy was raised as a human in a suburban family home where she was taught ... More from ABC We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and ...

A fossilised skeleton, Australopithecus afarensis, best known by her nickname 'Lucy', was ... provides the first direct evidence of whether Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor ...